Hi Jasen! :-)

 JB> The other is to have the software detect the endianness of the data
 JB> file and set a flag which youv'e implemented to switch the
 JB> byte-swapping on or off at runtime.
That is usually easy to do under one condition: there needs to be at least
one magic value in the data file which can be used to detect endianness.
Otherwise, if there is no suitable value (at a fixed position), then one
needs to read the data and carefully look at it to see whether it might be
byte-swapped. Depends on the data whether this is hard or easy. If it's
just arbitrary numbers, there is no way to do it.

Ciao
Pascal

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